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...exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor Al Smith as "vicious" and intolerant," they were repealed two years after their passage...
...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
Eugene DuBois (rhymes with new choice) got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...
When this dark young guy gave her the long look in a New York subway car, something happened to blonde, empty-headed Pearl Lusk. Here was Mr. Excitement in person-sharp, smiling, hefty; a lonesome Latin with a George Raft face, and a slow burn in his eye. The minute 19-year-old Pearl saw him, she began to feel pleasantly jittery...
...could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...